Huawei make the 3 "MiFi", the original generation at least and probably the rest too. They also make 3G dongles.

and an unlicensed particle accelerator on the back ...

As a techie who wears t-shirts in the office but a suit when visiting clients or when doing consultancy gigs: bollocks to you, sir.

Also, my colleague who is infinitely more knowledgable than me goes to client meetings and presentations in extremely good suits, because like any good obsessive, he believes that no suit is better than a poor suit.

I've wondered in the past about how practical it would be to have a "stand up" office workstation, with no chair, everything at standing height.

Of course, no idea is new on the internet. (Lots of useful links branch off that one)

PowerShell is a definite improvement but it's still wrapped in the same functionally crippled terminal window they've been using for years. I haven't yet found a better alternative - if anyone knows about one I'd be grateful.

That is, 8 "nahs", two repetitions of "nah nah nah nah".

8, you're welcome

You MAY be able to use directory junctions / NTFS simlinks to get round this issue.

Free Software Foundation "Defective By Design" site, specifically highlighting the locked down nature of the ipad. Not sure if it's directly steered by Stallman, but I'm pretty sure he's always been vocal about the evils of DRM in Apple products.

Which they are. The ipad is a relatively young device. If you have an original model ipad, you're locked out of the current iOS release, and the older iOS releases are slowly becoming less and less useful. Give it n years and an original model ipad that has no other hardware defects will be rendered completely useless due to only being able to run an obsolete OS. This is NOT a good situation for computing to find itself in.

I work for a review platform. We have decided that you only really need four ratings, Bad, Poor, Good, Excellent. We don't have a neutral option because really neutral tends to mean bad.

Of course, quite a lot of our users (and our marketing department) seem to prefer stars. Because an arbitrary scale is so much more useful that simply saying what you think of something. Apparently.

Does anyone else play the "Predict which XKCD this will be" game when Oblig XKCD links are posted?

(Those that don't know the strip numbers off by heart of course)

I tried to give our office manager Libre Office to save us the license fee for a copy of MS Office. The very first document she tried to work on:

Some of the numbers in her ordered lists were randomly bold. Unbold them, save document, open it again, they're back in bold.

At one point in the document, libre office was acting as if there were a page break present, when there was not one. It appeared to be impossible to remove this phantom non-existent page break.

I gave up and she got MS Office back.

You may laugh, but Trial of Paul Chambers. Fortunately it didn't land him in prison.

And that 3GS will later be repaired, refurbished, then either resold or given to another customer like yourself.